Question about layouts and the blog module

marceld

Hello!

I recently decided to give FUEL CMS a try but there is one thing (there will probably be more in the future) I don't understand.

I started my project by creating a few simple pages and my own layout. After this I decided to add a blog to the project. When I added the blog I could view the posts by going to /blog but these pages didn't use my own layout. Also I wanted to the first 5 posts to be on the homepage.

Because of the layout problem I thought I had to move my layout to the views folder in the blog module and set the default_controller to /blog. This worked fine, but now my pages and my blog were still using a different layout.

So my question is:

How do I make the blog module and my pages work together in the same layout?

I hope my problem and question are clear, if not, feel free to ask for more information.

Thanks in advance!

admin

There are 3 configuration values you can set for the blog under Settings in the CMS or can be done manually in the fuel/modules/blog/config/blog.php (settings in the CMS will take precedence):
$config['blog']['theme_path'] = 'themes/default'; // The view file path $config['blog']['theme_layout'] = 'blog'; // The layout file name $config['blog']['theme_module'] = 'blog'; // The module to look in, change to "app"to have it look in your application/view folder

What we normally do for our setups is the following which allows us to use a theme folder in the application/views/blog.:
$config['blog']['theme_path'] = 'blog'; // The view file path $config['blog']['theme_layout'] = 'mylayout'; // The layout file name $config['blog']['theme_module'] = 'app'; // The module to look in, change to "app"to have it look in your application/view folder

If you have an existing layout in your application/views/_layouts/, you can just add the following to your application/views/blog/_layouts/:
$this->load->view('_layouts/my_layout');

Additionally, if you have page variables you want to include from the CMS, you can create a page of "blog" in the CMS and that layout will have those variables applied to it.

marceld

Thank you for your quick response!

This seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'm going to give it a try!